Past Honorees

The Angel Award Database is an archive of all those who have received the award since its inception in 1995. Click a year below to learn about our Angels.

Karen Duhon

Lake Charles, 2006
Duhon has devoted many volunteer hours to the Autism Society of America and its state and local chapters for the past 17...
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Rick Emerson

Shreveport, 2006
Emerson has devoted his life to social work in Lincoln and Union Parishes. The culmination of this has been the opening ...
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Karen Gordon

Shreveport, 2006
Veterinarian Dr. Karen Gordon created Right to Play, a non-rofit organization to fund and oversee a playground that is a...
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Cory Howat

New Orleans, 2006
As Executive Director of the New Orleans chapter of Boys Hope Girls Hope, Howat has overseen the removal of multiple at-...
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Kay Marcel

Lafayette, 2006
Since the early 1980s, Kay Marcel has fought for the rights of children with disabilities to live full, meaningful lives...
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Roy Martinez

Shreveport, 2006
Martinez operates the Hope Youth Ranch, where since 1994 he has helped more than 800 young boys in the state's foster ca...
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Mack McCarter

Shreveport, 2006
McCarter is the founder of, the inspiration for and the driving force behind Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal. He ov...
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J.L. NeSmith

Baton Rouge, 2006
After working with Dreams Come True for many years, NeSmith expanded his work serving children by founding SafeHouse, th...
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